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Christopher Carpenter, MD, Secretary-Treasurer of the SAEM Academy for Geriatric Emergency and Chief Clinical Editor of EP Monthly, discusses geriatric emergency medicine and how it will impact the future of the entire specialty.

Emergency Medicine residency programs received two of the three GSR awards made this year. The GSR Dissemination Grant (GSR-DG) program is funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation and awarded by the American Geriatrics Association. The awards offer support to past recipients of GSR grants in order to disseminate their work to their colleagues in residency programs in other institutions, in other disciplines within their own institutions, or both. In so doing, successful GSR-DG awardees will serve as leaders in their specialties, utilizing their experiences in program development and implementation to disseminate workable educational models to other specialty training programs. Each grant will provide one-year support of $25,000. The 2009 GSR-DG grant recipients in Emergency Medicine are:

 

Fredric Hustey, MD
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

 

Heather Prendergast,  MD
University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Academy Members can communicate with the entire group by addressing e-mail to geriatric@lists.saem.org - effective January 2010, the new list serve account  will be agem@lists.saem.org

 

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Emergency Physicians Monthly, a non-peer reviewed newspaper received by 34,000 emergency healthcare providers across the United States, dedicated their June issue to “An Aging America”.  With ten different stories ranging from a free iTunes podcast to physician perspectives in caring for older adults to geriatric patient perspectives on their experiences within the ED, the issue was both diverse and thought provoking.  Each story will be archived online indefinitely and readers can provide comments regarding each article. 

 

EPM Chief Clinical Editor Chris Carpenter is Secretary-Treasurer of the SAEM Academy for Geriatric Emergency Medicine.

 

2009 May 14th AGEM Meeting Notes (doc)

The University of North Carolina received one of the five Geriatric Education for Specialists (GSR) training awards from American Geriatrics Association. These two-year awards are designed to improve the amount and quality of geriatric education received by residents and provides support to develop or enrich geriatrics teaching in the residency programs. Each grant will provide two-year support of $40,000. The Program Director is Kevin Biese, MD, MAT  and  the Co-PI: Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD

Here is a descriptive summary of AGEM's mission statement:

 

 

Founded in 2009, the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM) provides a forum for the collaborative exchange of ideas among emergency medicine researchers, educators, trainees and clinicians. Our Mission is to improve the quality of emergency care received by older patients through advancing research, education and faculty development. Our specific goals are:

 

 

1. To serve as a unified voice for geriatric emergency medicine researchers, educators, trainees and clinicians

 

 

2. To provide a forum for individuals committed to geriatric emergency medicine to communicate, share ideas, and generate solutions to common problems.

 

 

3. To foster research that improves the care and quality of life of older patients.

 

 

4. To advance resident and continuing education and professional development to improve clinical outcomes as they pertain to issues of aging.

 

 

5. To foster relationships with other organizations to promote geriatric emergency medicine.

 

 

Interim officers are:

 

 

President Scott Wilber MD
Vice Presidents Ula Hwang MD and Manish Shah MD
Secretary-Treasurer Christopher Carpenter MD

 

We will be collecting content here from the 2008/09 Interest Group and the Task Force web pages to aid in organization the information for archiving and for future development. First step is creating main pages for sections of the site and navigation to these pages. This way people will be able to get to any of the main sections from any of the main pages making it quick and easy to find what they are looking for.

Geriatrics Interest Group Page  - - - - Geriatrics Task Force Page - - - - Current Collection on AGEM site